| aleatory |
pertaining to or depending on luck, chance, or contingency. |
| assuage |
to make less severe or more bearable; alleviate. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| cognoscente |
someone who has exceptional knowledge in a given area, especially of fashion, literature, or the fine arts; connoisseur. |
| conduction |
the transmission or transfer, as of heat, electrical charges, or nervous impulses, through a medium. |
| disinter |
to dig up or remove from a place of burial; exhume. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| epistolary |
established or continued through letters. |
| facsimile |
an exact copy or duplicate of something printed or of a picture. |
| garble |
to mix up, distort, or confuse (a message, translation, or the like); cause to be disordered or unintelligible. |
| irrefragable |
impossible to refute or dispute; undeniable. |
| ligature |
a band or tie. |
| mésalliance |
marriage with someone of lower social standing than oneself. |
| opiate |
something that induces relaxation, calm, or stupor. |
| syntax |
the word order or pattern of word order in a sentence. |